Noun: integration ,in-tu'grey-shun
- The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community
"School integration was a major goal of the civil rights movement";
- integrating, desegregation
- The act of combining into an integral whole
"The integration of the two companies took several months";
- consolidation
- An operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined
"Integration is often used to calculate areas under curves"
Derived forms: integrations
Type of: combination, combining, compounding, group action, mathematical operation, mathematical process, operation
Encyclopedia: Integration